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Why I love the ResearchBlogs twitter feed

I haven’t figured out why there are some things I just like hearing about on Twitter – but the new posts on ResearchBlogging.org are some of those things. I used to keep the RSS feed – which is the same information – in my reader, and I just didn’t look at it the same way as I do now that I’m finding it in Twitter.

And back to the twitter feed – I also clicked through to this one, which is entirely awesome and fascinating and might still be the next peer-reviewed Monday, but I don’t want to keep it under my hat here. It’s a discussion of an article from PLoS ONE analyzing and visualizing click-throughs at scholarly journals. Again with the information literacy implications, but it goes beyond that into impact factor, scholarly practice and epistemology and makes a stab at uncovering research behaviors that have previously been un-capturable.

Maybe it’s because there’s so much else to read in my RSS feeds that these articles, which take a little more work than many blog posts, seem like too much. But in twitter, I can focus more? Who knows, but I do know that I’m reading more scholarly articles, and discussions of scholarly articles, than I was before which is a good thing.